[GNC] Thinking about Moving to MacOS from Win 10

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 4/26/2021 12:44 PM, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
> Just copy the main data file.
> I copy it from my iMac to my Linux laptop for a backup and to a 
> Windows 10  laptop for a backup to my Linux laptop.
> Any reports you create will require copying a different file though. 


Just a suggestion from somebody who went through recovery after a house 
fire << we did have data recovery coverage and ONE of the drives of ONE 
of the computers was not too smoke damaged for the recovery lab to get 
the data from that one; the rest, no dice. And if we had not had that 
rider on our policy, the cost would have been prohibitive >>

Maybe not every time, but once in a while, maybe monthly, make a copy of 
the data on your machines to either ROM medium or an external drive that 
will reside elsewhere (not in the same building). Ours (now) goes onto a 
drive that lives in a fire safe in the barn, only at risk of "same 
building" when brought into the house to make the backup. Of course you 
COULD use a "cloud server" but I do not care to allow third party access 
to my data.

If you are a business, your accountant SHOULD be telling you to do this 
as "standard procedure" for a business.

Michael D Novack